by Dana Mackenzie | Jun 12, 2009 | Books, Events, Moon
A film crew for the History Channel program, “The Universe,” came up to Santa Cruz to interview me for an episode that will appear next fall. It turned out to be quite an adventure, because it was extremely windy! The wind blew their reflector (a piece of...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 15, 2008 | Events, Moon
Tonight I presented “Moon and a Mocha III” at the Capitola Book Cafe. Once again the Santa Cruz Astronomy Club provided telescopes. Some clueless customer at the drug store next door saw one of the telescope stands with a wire coming out of it, thought it...
by Dana Mackenzie | Feb 20, 2008 | Events, Moon
The Capitola Book Cafe hosted my second “Moon and a Mocha” event on the night of the lunar eclipse. (Last total lunar eclipse until 2010!) I told some of the lore and science of eclipses, while in the sky behind me the Earth’s shadow blocked out the...
by Dana Mackenzie | Jan 10, 2008 | Articles, Events, Mathematics
This week I went to the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. One highlight was an exceedingly cool animated film of “Flatland,” produced by Seth Caplan, directed by Jeffrey Travis and Dano Johnson, and starring Martin Sheen as Arthur Square. I have...
by Dana Mackenzie | Nov 26, 2007 | Books, Events, Santa Cruz
The Capitola Book Cafe hosted “Moon and a Mocha,” a community science event. I showed clips from the episode of “The Universe” that I appeared in, and talked about some of the science that didn’t get in the show. As it turned out, the...
